NVIDIA GeForce 9700M GT vs AMD Radeon HD 8870M

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NVIDIA GeForce 9700M GT AMD Radeon HD 8870M

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce 9700M GT and 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 8870M to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon HD 8870M 's Advantages

Released 4 years and 9 months late

Boost Clock775MHz

Larger VRAM bandwidth (72.00GB/s vs 25.60GB/s)

608 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce 9700M GT

0.099 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 8870M +902%

0.992 TFLOPS

GeForce 9700M GT

VS

Radeon HD 8870M

Graphics Card

Jul 2008

Release Date

Apr 2013

GeForce 9M

Generation

Solar System

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-II

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

725 MHz

-

Boost Clock

775 MHz

800 MHz

Memory Clock

1125 MHz

Memory

512MB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

128bit

25.60GB/s

Bandwidth

72.00GB/s

Render Config

4

SM Count

-

Compute Units

10

32

Shading Units

640

16

TMUs

40

8

ROPs

16

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

32 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

Theoretical Performance

5.000 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

12.40 GPixel/s

10.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

31.00 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

99.20 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

992.0 GFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

62.00 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

G96

GPU Name

Venus

NB9E-GE

GPU Variant

Venus XT (216-0846000)

Tesla

Architecture

GCN 1.0

UMC

Foundry

TSMC

65 nm

Process Size

28 nm

0.314 billion

Transistors

1.5 billion

144 mm²

Die Size

123 mm²

Board Design

45W

TDP

Unknown

-

Suggested PSU

-

No outputs

Outputs

Portable Device Dependent

-

Power Connectors

-

Graphics Features

11.1 (10_0)

DirectX

12 (11_1)

3.3

OpenGL

4.6

1.1

OpenCL

2.1 (1.2)

N/A

Vulkan

1.2.170

1.1

CUDA

-

4.0

Shader Model

6.5 (5.1)

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